Masevaux
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local community | Masevaux-Niederbruck | |
region | Grand Est | |
Department | Haut-Rhin | |
Arrondissement | Thann-Guebwiller | |
Coordinates | 47 ° 46 ′ N , 7 ° 0 ′ E | |
Post Code | 68290 | |
Former INSEE code | 68201 | |
Incorporation | January 1, 2016 | |
status | Commune déléguée | |
![]() Place Clémenceau with a baroque fountain |
Masevaux ( German Masmünster , Alsatian Màsminschter ) is a former French commune with the last 3,343 inhabitants (as of 2013) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region . It belonged to the Arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller and the Canton of Masevaux .
With effect from January 1, 2016, the former municipalities of Masevaux and Niederbruck were merged into a commune nouvelle with the name Masevaux-Niederbruck .
geography
Masevaux is located in the south-eastern Vosges . The valley of the Doller widens here before entering the lowlands of the Upper Rhine Plain. The area bordering the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region to the south -west is part of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park .
history
The place has its origin in the Abbey Masmünster (Masevaux) that around the year 720/730 by a etichonids was founded called Maso. Maso owned the nearby Ringelstein Castle . After his son and only heir drowned in the Doller at the age of eight, Maso is said to have founded the Masmünster convent. This monastery achieved the establishment of its own domain. Later the monastery and power fell into the Landsässigkeit Austria. A settlement developed around the monastery, which was elevated to a town in 1217. The monastery was abandoned at the end of the 14th century. At the end of the 16th century the rule came to the noble lords of Bollweiler , and in 1616 as an Austrian fiefdom to the Counts of Fugger ( Fugger von der Lilie ). The Masmünster dominion comprised the entire Dollertal above Masmünster as well as the places Sentheim, Lauw (Au), Guewenheim, Bourbach-le-Haut and Bourbach-le-Bas. In 1648 all Austrian rights fell to the Kingdom of France.
Organ festival
An international organ festival takes place in Masevaux every year during the summer months.
Passion play
Every Sunday since 1930, during Lent, around 200 performers from Masevaux and the surrounding villages have performed a passion play in German.
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
Residents | 3326 | 3385 | 3601 | 3328 | 3267 | 3329 | 3232 |
Personalities
- Margaretha Ursula von Masmünster (approx. 1400–1447 / 48), Dominican nun
- Ursula von Masmünster (1515–1570), wife of Erasmus Böcklin von Böcklinsau
- Jacques-Louis Battmann (1818–1886), French organist and composer, b. in Masmünster
- Julius Manigold (1873–1935), German flautist and composer, b. in Masmünster
- Boris Kleint (1903–1996), German artist, b. in Masmünster
See also
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 731-736.
Web links
- Masevaux at the Communauté de communes de la Vallée de la Doller et du Soultzbach (French)